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Updated: May 12, 2025
Then envy and hatred filled their hearts and they began cursing and complaining to think that he who was the Youngest had succeeded where they had failed. "We'll be the laughing-stock of the whole country!" they said, "if we let him come home carrying the Nightingale Gisar! Let us take the bird while he sleeps and hurry home with it.
He opened his bag and the maidens were overjoyed to see their beak and their wing and their leg. Then they told the Youngest Brother all they knew about the Nightingale Gisar. "Far from here," they said, "there is a Warrior Princess, so beautiful that men call her Flower o' the World. She has the Nightingale Gisar in a golden cage hanging in her own chamber.
"I am searching for the Nightingale Gisar and I have come to you to ask you if you can tell me where I can find that glorious bird." The Tiger had never heard of the Nightingale Gisar but he thought that his oldest brother the Lion might know. "Go straight on from here," he said, "until you come to the Lion's house.
Very well, brothers, that's the very road I wish to take for why should I leave home if it were not to have adventures! Farewell then until we meet again in one year's time." The oldest traveled his safe road until he reached a city where he became a barber. He asked every man whose head he shaved: "Do you know anything of the Nightingale Gisar?"
If only the youth who maimed us would return the beak and the wing and the leg that he hacked off, we would tell him anything he wants to know." At that the Youngest Brother stepped out from behind the firewood and said: "Tell me then where I can find the Nightingale Gisar and you shall have back your beak and your wing and your leg."
She clapped her hands and when the guards came in she said to them: "Call my warriors together that I may show them the Sultan's Youngest Son and the man who stole from me my glorious Nightingale Gisar and whom I am fated to wed." So the warriors came in until they crowded the tent to its utmost.
Instead of searching the wide world for the Nightingale Gisar, he settled down in the first city he reached and lived a life of idleness and ease. Some say he became a barber and some say he opened a coffee-house and spent his days chatting with passing travelers. He has not come home with us for no doubt it shames him to know that we have succeeded where he has failed."
During those few moments a man could enter the chamber, get the Nightingale Gisar, and escape. But even then he might not be safe for the Flower o' the World might gather her army together and pursue him." "Now tell me how to reach the palace of that Warrior Princess, Flower o' the World." "You could never get there alone," they told him, "the way is too long and the dangers are too many.
He never found any one who had even heard of the bird, so after a time he stopped asking. The second brother followed the middle road to a city where he settled down and opened a coffee-house. "Have you ever heard of a glorious Nightingale known as Gisar?" he asked at first of every traveler who came in and sipped his coffee.
Report of the beggar youth reached the ears of the Sultan and he went to the Dervish and questioned him. "Why do you say that the Nightingale Gisar will not sing unless he who found him comes to the mosque? Lo, here are my two sons who found him and the bird remains silent, yet people tell me that when a certain beggar comes to the mosque he sings.
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